29 September 2012

BUTTERWORTH (Bernama) - The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) and the
Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) will foucus
on information warfare in the next Angsa (Air and Sea – Angkasa dan Samudera) Exercise,
said RMN Deputy Chief Laksamana Madya Datok Mohammed Noordin Ali.

He said the field had never been fully explore by the Armed
Forces, particularly in training their men on military cyber crimes to tackle
such threats.

“Information warfare threatens the nation as the enemy can either
send false information or misinformation and manipulate whatever information
received, among other things, via cyberspace,” he said.

Mohammed Noordin was speaking to reporters after closing the
Angsa exercise at the Butterworth Military Air Base here Friday.

Meanwhile at the same function, RMAF operations chief Lieutenant-General
Datuk Sri Ackbal Abdul Samad proposed the Angsa Exercise time-frame be extended
to ensure the readiness of every military officer.

HTMS Taksin 422 and HTMS Naresuan FFG (photo : War-Sky, Militaryphotos)Defence and security company Saab has received an order from the Royal Thai Navy for the upgrading of the Combat Systems on the frigates H.T.M.S. Naresuan and H.T.M.S Taksin. The order amounts to Baht 2520 million (approximately SEK 550 million).The contract is a continuation of an on-going program contracted to Saab by the Royal Thai Navy in 2011. The contract adds additional sights and communications equipment to complete the combat suite on the two frigates.

“Saab will further strengthen its position as supplier to the Royal Thai Navy through the upgrade of the Combat System on the frigates H.T.M.S. Naresuan and H.T.M.S Taksin. Saab is now on the Navy's three major vessels and with data links to the Royal Thai Air Force's Gripen and Erieye, capabilities and resources can be used more efficiently,” says Gunilla Fransson, Head of Saab’s Business Area Security and Defence Solutions.

Saab is the main contractor to the Royal Thai Navy, and the order, apart from containing supply of Saab’s systems, also covers delivery of third party systems as well as responsibility for integration of all existing and new systems.(Saab)

THE Royal
Australian Air Force has been warned to scale back the use of its ageing fleet
of F/A-18 "classic" Hornet fighters to avert structural fatigue
concerns.

The 71
fighter jets, brought into service in the mid-1980s, may need to keep flying
beyond 2020 because of delays in acquiring the new Joint Strike Fighter, the
Australian National Audit Office said yesterday.

It warned to
expect a big increase in annual maintenance costs of the old Hornet fleet from
$118 million since 2001 to $170m today, with costs expected to blow out to
$214m a year by 2018. The report found all but nine of the Hornet fleet had
"experienced structure fatigue above that expected for the airframe
hours".

The ANAO's
upkeep concerns are directed at the "classic" Hornets and not the
newer fleet of 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets delivered to RAAF Amberley between 2010
and last year.

"The
key risks to the F/A-18 fleets' fulfilment of their operational requirements
until their replacement by the F-35A Lightning (JSF) revolve around Defence's
ability to maintain the present levels of Hornet sustainment and
structural-integrity management," the report said.

It "may
well require the fleet to undergo an expanded, and hence more costly,
safety-by-inspection regime, structural modifications program and capability
upgrades".

The
government has indicated it will buy 100 new Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint
Strike Fighters, to replace the Hornet fleet in a deal worth $13.2 billion.

So far, it
has committed to buy only two JSFs and in May announced plans to defer for two
years the next acquisition of 12 of the stealthy, multi-role strike aircraft.

The audit
report noted problems with the JSF program, including that it was progressing
"more slowly and at greater cost than first estimated".

"At the
time of the audit, almost 80 per cent of the F-35 test and evaluation program
was yet to be completed, so significant F-35 key performance parameters had not
been fully validated," the report warned.

Latest 2012
price estimates for individual JSF war planes were $US131.4m ($126.2m),
projected to fall slightly next year and reach $US83.4m in 2019 when aircraft
production is scheduled to increase.

RAAF's first
two JSFs are scheduled for delivery in 2014 and will remain in the US for
flight tests and evaluation.

Australia is
one of nine partner nations involved in the JSF program, which has delivered
more than $300m in contracts to Australian aerospace suppliers.

To bridge a
looming capability gap following the retirement of the 1970s vintage F-111
fighter-bombers, the Howard government ordered 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets --
themselves due to be replaced by the F-35 (JSF) Lightnings by 2025.

On a plus
note, the ANAO said recent initiatives to improve performance of the JSF
program "are starting to show results".

Practitioners
in the Institute of Air Defence-Air Force has developed simulation software
works missile complex S-75M3. (photo : BaoDatViet)

Meet the
needs of visual materials for teaching, training, technical subjects S-75M3,
the students of the Institute of Air Defense - Air Force has developed a
software model simulation functioning missile combination.

The authors
have used Powerpoint software to simulate the operation the radio SNR-75V3
control function; using Macromedia Flash and PowerPoint 2003 to simulate the
reduced functional activity of the air defense missile complex S-75M3.

Simulation
products can fully control the station's operation as well as a combination of
missiles, to ensure highly vivid visual, can be used as a reference and
learning for students in the learning process at the school.

The airship
has been unable to fly since its delivery about two years ago. (photo :
chorcharsinging)

The army has
agreed to pay 50 million baht more to an American airship producer to make its
350-million-baht airship fly for the first time since its procurement.

An army
source said the army signed a contract with Aria International Inc on Sept 20
to make the surveillance airship stay up in the air.

The company
was originally hired to provide the airship, which has not flown since its
arrival in the country.

Army chief
Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha ordered the contract because he does not want the airship
to rest in its hangar in Pattani province any longer.

The
contractor is confident it can make the airship fly by November.

The airship
has been unable to fly since its delivery about two years ago. The army
formally accepted the airship in July last year. Since then it has had to pay
for its maintenance.

The army has
paid 200,000-300,000 baht a month to refill the airship with helium, to help
the airship keep its shape and avoid leaks. The army has paid about 25 million
baht altogether for refills in the past year.

The airship
was ordered during the tenure of former army chief Anupong Paochinda who hoped
it would help deter threats in the three southern border provinces. However, it
was criticised for being unsuitable for security missions in the far South, as
it could be shot down with ease.

Poor storage
caused multiple leaks, and the supplier repaired it once. The cameras of the
airship and their video streaming system are also out of order.

27 September 2012

Richmond,
Australia - BAE
Systems Australia has been awarded a contract from the New Air Combat
Capability (NACC) Program to develop an operational model to integrate the
Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) into the Australian Defence Environment.

Under the nine month contract BAE Systems will work closely
with the Australian Defence Force and NACC to develop a model that outlines all
requirements for JSF operations and sustainment including maintenance, supply,
training needs and fleet asset management.

Director Aerospace John Monaghan said: “This contract will
play a critical role in ensuring that Defence, industry and our ADF men and
women are ready and prepared for a smooth transition when the JSF comes into
service.

“Our team will work to define the processes and information
that will be required to ensure that the aircraft achieves its maximum
operational effectiveness in any deployed environment.”

The company has leveraged its global experience and
appointed an employee from the UK JSF team to lead the project. F-35 Tech
Specialist Dave Harrison has more than 10 years experience with the aircraft
and played a pivotal role working with the British Joint Combat Air Project to
support the integration of the aircraft into the UK defence force.

The project also requires plans for follow-on phases that
will support the continued integration of the aircraft through to achievement
of its Initial Operating Capability in 2019/20.

(ĐVO) The
improvement in order to meet the requirements for helicopters Mi-24 weapons
crackdown on the remnants of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia,

Mi-24 attack
helicopter developed by the Soviet Union and put into use in the early 1970s.
This is the helicopter gunships "one of a kind" has been equipped
with heavy duty weapons fire support to the ground, destroy armored tanks, and,
military passenger compartment contain up to 8 soldiers.

The late
1970s, Soviet aid a small number of Mi-24 attack helicopters for the Vietnam
People's Air Force. In 1980, the Air Vietnam Air Force squadron officially
established the first Mi-24 helicopters of the 916th Regiment.

Mi-24 of the Vietnam People's Air Force (photo : Hoangsa)

The Mi-24
that you aid to Vietnam under the Mi-24A variant - the first generation of the
helicopter. Mi-24A compared to the Mi-24D and the modern variant the main difference
is in the type of cabin.

Mi-24A
cockpit 3 with control arms in front of officers, pilots and navigators in
parallel in the back seat. Variations Mi-24 or later to use style cockpit
"double bubble" with the arms in front of officers and pilots behind.

Weapons,
Mi-24 mounted 12.7 mm machine guns in the nose and 4 rocket launchers clusters
(8-16 tubes) with 4 anti-tank guided missiles, AT-2 on three pylons located in
the 2 small wings body.

Mi-24 of the Vietnam People's Air Force (photo : xairforces)

Mi-24A fleet
Vietnam People's Air Force during a trip sorties mopping up the remnants of the
Khmer Rouge.

In the years
used Mi-24A and assist our troops fire mopping up the remnants of the Khmer
Rouge (*). Aeronautical engineer officers in Vietnam, there are small
improvements to U.S. rocket bullet style helicopter Russia serves battlefield.

As the
number of rocket fire U.S. military aid to South Vietnam so much, we can
leverage to bring the means to fight the Soviet Union (Russia).

But, to
solve this problem is not simple, because the rockets of the Soviet Union
against the United States is not the same size, can not arbitrarily put
American rocket bullet cluster Soviet rocket launchers. If used rocket
launchers cluster America, bottom to hook into the bracket on the Mi-24 does
not fit. Moreover this launch pad clusters can not be used more than once.

Mi-24 of the Vietnam People's Air Force (photo : jetphotos)

Under these
circumstances, the young staff weapons Vietnamese airlines have found a special
plan to put American rocket to equip helicopter Mi-24.

"We
take rocket tubes of reconnaissance aircraft U-17 is used to fire rockets smoke
goals. Then, we use two belt bundled into a cluster (8-16 tubes), on a
long-term appropriate size hook to hook into bracket helicopters Mi-24, to
ensure balance.

With this,
secured a U.S. rocket launch on a Russian helicopter, can be reused many times,
"Colonel Nguyen Kim Khoi-air weapons officer (Air Defense Air Force)
directly involved improvement in the work to American-made rockets to shoot on
Mi-24 helicopter of the Soviet Union shared.

The process
of testing the use of cluster homemade catapult was a great success and make
sure all the technical requirements involved combat.

26 September 2012

KYIV/UKRINFORM/.
The Kharkiv-based Malyshev Plant announced plans to produce by the end of the
year the first batch of five Oplot tanks for the Thai Army. Overall, under the
contract the Ukrainian company will make 49 tanks worth over USD 200 million,
Volodymyr Mazin, a representative of the Ukroboronprom SE's director general,
told UKRINFORM on Friday.

"Under
the contract with Thailand, this year we produce five Oplot tanks. "The
contract is designed for 2 years. We must do, they take, and the shipment will
be later, for example, in January," he said.

A reminder
that Ukraine's state-controlled arms exporter Ukrspecexport signed the contract
with Thailand for the supply of 49 Kharkiv tanks in September 2011.

25 September 2012

China's
first aircraft carrier was delivered and commissioned to the Navy of the
Chinese People's Liberation Army on Sept. 25, 2012. The carrier, with the name
"Liaoning" and hull number 16, was officially handed over to the Navy
at a ceremony held in a naval base of northeast China's Dalian Port. (photo :
AC Studio)

DALIAN (Xinhua)
-- China's first aircraft carrier was delivered and commissioned to the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Tuesday after years of refitting and sea trials.

Overseen by
President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, the carrier was officially handed
over by the navy's main contractor, the China Shipbuilding Industry
Corporation, at a ceremony held at a naval base in northeast China's city of
Dalian.

President
Hu, also chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), endorsed a PLA flag
and naming certificate to the naval unit that received the carrier.

The carrier,
formerly known as the Soviet ship Varyag, was renamed Liaoning and underwent
years of refitting efforts to install engines, weapons, as well as a year-long
sea trial.

The ceremony
made China the tenth country around the world and the last among the five
permanent members of the U.N. Security Council to have an aircraft carrier in
active service.

Premier Wen
said in reading off a congratulatory letter sent from top central authorities
that China's first aircraft carrier in active service will "be of great
and far-reaching significance in inspiring patriotism, national spirit and
driving national defense technologies."

"It
will also be of great significance in enhancing national defense power and the
country's comprehensive strength," Premier Wen said.

"China's
development of an aircraft carrier was an important strategic decision made by
the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the State Council and the
Central Military Commission," Wen said.

"The
delivery and commission of the first carrier is a milestone in the PLA's
history and embodies a major achievement of China's weaponry and equipment
development, as well as its national defense modernization," he said.

Liaoning - China's first aircraft carrier (photo : msnbc)After the
commission ceremony, President Hu boarded the Liaoning, which was in full
dress, and inspected the Navy's honor guard.

President Hu
gave his firm appreciation for the construction of the Liaoning and ordered the
Navy and relevant research institutes to keep up their good work.

The
president and premier later came to the carrier's flight deck and some cabins
where they talked with sailors, and scientists and engineers who developed the
carrier.

According to
the CMC, after being commissioned to the Navy, the Liaoning will continue to
serve for scientific research purposes, as well as military training.

"The
PLA's General Armament Department, the Navy and all comrades participating in
the carrier program should make new contributions in promoting China's weaponry
construction and safeguarding national sovereignty, security and territorial
integrity," Wen said.

"The
country and people appreciate all participants in the aircraft carrier
program," Wen said.

Hu and Wen
were accompanied by CMC Vice Chairmen Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou, as well as
State Council Secretary-General Ma Kai, director of the PLA's General Armament
Department Chang Wanquan and Navy Commander Wu Shengli.

China
announced its aircraft carrier program in July 2011, when the carrier was
berthed in Dalian for refitting. Dalian is located at the south end of Liaoning
province.

Minister for
Defence Materiel Jason Clare today announced that the hull of the first of the
Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) new amphibious ships has begun the final leg of
its journey to Australia.

Mr Clare
said the Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) 01 hull has rounded the Cape of Good
Hope and is expected to arrive in Melbourne in the next few weeks.

The LHD hull
left Ferrol, Spain in August and is being transported by the Heavy Lift Ship,
Blue Marlin. The hull was built in the Navantia shipyard in Spain.

“The Blue
Marlin is making good progress and we expect the LHD to arrive in Melbourne by
mid October,” Mr Clare said.

The Canberra
Class LHDs are bigger than Australia’s last aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne.
When completed they will be more than 230 metres long, 27.5 metres high and
weigh around 27,500 tonnes.

Each ship
can carry a combined arms battle group of more than 1100 personnel, 100
armoured vehicles and 12 helicopters and features a 40-bed hospital.

“From Port
Phillip Bay, Melbourne, the LHD will then travel to the Williamstown dockyard
for consolidation of the superstructure and installation of the combat and
communications and navigation systems,” Mr Clare said.

HMA
Ships Balikpapan, Betano and Wewak will
be decommissioned in December after almost four decades of service.

While the
ships continue to provide excellent service, Navy will transition from the
existing Fleet as its new amphibious capabilities grow.

CN VADM
Ray Griggs said
in a signal to all Navy personnel
that the decommissioning of Balik papan, Betano and
Wewak would be followed by the paying off of HMA Ships Brunei, Labuan and
Tarakan by the end of 2014.

“Many of us
have had the privilege of serving in a shoebox,” he said.

“I
congratulate all personnel both, uniformed and civilian, who have operated and
maintained these wonderful amphibious work horses for almost four decades.

Commander
Australian Amphibious Task Group CAPT Ray Leggatt said their operational
record, particularly during the past 20 years covering operations in
Bougainville, East Timor and Solomon Islands, had been outstanding.

“Their
performance has been exemplary as indicated by the granting of a meritorious
unit citation for the LCH group for operations in East Timor during the
INTERFET intervention during 1999-2000,” he said.

“They have
laid a great foundation as we transition from the existing Fleet and grow our
new amphibious capabilities.”

After the
preparation process on all sides, the middle of September, the 923rd Regiment
(371st Division, Air Defense - Air Force) held the first night on the aircraft
Su-30MK2V.

Monitor and
direct flight training mission at night Regiment Major General Do Minh Tuan,
deputy commander of the Air Defense - Air Force.

Board flight
was a success, reaching 100% of the plan.

Major
General Do Minh Tuan congratulate and commend the efforts of the officers and
soldiers of the Regiment 923, and requests the next time, the regiment
continued efforts to improve the quality of training and perform tasks on duty
combat aircraft.